Additional Activities

In 2015 the movement ran National Children's Day UK using the theme 'The Science and Magic of Play'. It is also now developing the bi-annual International Festival of Childhood, with the first one taking place in the summer of 2017.

Baseline Assessment

During 2016 the focus was on challenging the introduction of Baseline Assessment and supporters that formed a separate alliance around this aspect included:

Association for the Professional Development of Early Years education (TACTYC)British Association for Early Childhood Education (Early Education)Pre-School Learning Alliance (PSLA)The Primary CharterEarly Childhood Forum (ECF)The National Union of Teachers (NUT)Association of Teacher and Lecturers (ATL)Professional Association for Childcare and the Early Years (PACEY)National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA)London Early Years Foundation (LEYF)Unison Education and Children's ServicesUniversity of Sheffield School of EducationCambridge Primary Review TrustThe Government's own Assessment Reform GroupThe Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM)The Mathematical Association (MA),The British Educational Research Association (BERA)National Association for Primary Education (NAPE)Mothers at Home Matter (MAHM)What about the Children? (WATCH)

'Children have the right to be recognised as subjects of individual, legal, civil, and social rights; as both source and constructors of their own experience, and thus active participants in the organisation of their identities, abilities, and autonomy, through relationships and interaction with their peers, with adults, with ideas, with objects and with the real and imaginary events of intercommunicating worlds.'

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